Slang

Slang is the non-standard use of words in a language of a particular social group, and sometimes the creation of new words or importation of words from another language. It is a type of neologism. Slang can be described as deviating away from standard language use. Slang functions in two ways; the creation of new language and new usage by a process of creative informal use and adaptation, and the creation of a secret language understood only by those within a group intended to understand it.

External links

• For British slang, see http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/
• For Internet slang, seeInternet Slang translator and website validator
• For Singaporean slang, try http://www.talkingcock.com/html/lexec.php?op=LexView&lexicon=lexicon
• For some Cockney rhyming slang, see http://www.bio.nrc.ca/cockney/process.html
• For an example of a canting dictionary, which incidentally illustrates the tendency for English to adopt and make respectable words that were originally coined by the criminal classes http://www.holoweb.net/~liam/dict/ .
• For more about Polari, see this page: http://members.aol.com/frij/
• For more American slang, see http://www.urbandictionary.com/, http://www.unwords.com/
• For American slang from the 1950s, see http://www.fiftiesweb.com/fashion/slang.htm
• For Irish Slang, see http://www.at.artslink.co.za/~gerry/irish.htm
• For Helsinki slang, see http://slangi.net